Positives:1. The 'translation' is very good and gets over the rather 'haphazard' spelling (and to be fair there was no standard spelling in those days) of the original.2. Also this is a nicely produced book with a good clear font making it easy to read with many helpful notes.3. Good brief introduction.4. It's very affordable!

Minus points (to be fair none is major):1. at times rather banal/obvious notes eg just opening the book randomly I found the following:- p.139 'unsucceeded - eternal, with no successor', p40 'want - lacking', p. 183 'end - both completion & object'and I could give many more. Now many of the notes are very useful and interesting but when you're reading the poem seeing a note and then reading the obvious is irritating. I just think "you interrupted the flow to tell me that!".2. In the introduction there is a tendency to over emphasise Milton's non-conformist even unorthodox stance. While that may be true (and I'm no Milton scholar) this is not so relevant for the poem itself which is basically & surprisingly orthodox. It leaves me wondering 'what's the beef' here?3. Finally a very, very subjective comment but ... 'I hate the cover art'. Given the great art this poem has inspired, just think Blake or Dore, why choose 'that' but I suspect others will disagree and that's fine.

OverallA 'good buy' especially if you want to carry it round/take it on holiday and just enjoy the glory of Milton's vision and verse.

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